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Seans (russian: Сеанс, meaning Seance in English) is a film magazine published in St. Petersburg, Russia. It has been published since 1989, in 1993 the publishing house of the same name was established. By 2022, more than 100 books have been released by ''Seanse''. The magazine is widely acclaimed as the best blueprint on cinema in Russia. History and profile The magazine was created in 1989 by the Russian director Lubov Arcus with the support of Alexander Golutva, director of the Lenfilm.Сеанс длится 20 лет
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Lubov Arcus
Lyubov Yuryevna Arkus (russian: Любовь Юрьевна Аркус; born 1960) is a Russian director, film expert, editor, founder of ''Seans'' magazine, '' Anton's Right Here'' charity foundation, and ''Chapaev.media'' educational project. Biography Early years and education As recalled by Arkus, her family was of Jewish descent, her father's ancestors stemmed from Odesa and lived in Harbin. Her paternal grandfather Boris Arkus (1896–1938) was arrested in repressions of 1937 and shot in 1938, his widow was arrested and spent all her life in labour camps. Arkus entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography from the third attempt, she studied at the course of Lidiya Zaitseva. After graduation in 1984, she worked as a literary secretary of Viktor Shklovsky and an editor at Lenfilm. ''Seans'' In 1989, she founded Seans magazine that soon became the best Russian blueprint on cinema. In 1993, Arkus became the editor-in-chief. In 1993, ''Seans'' launched its publish ...
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Vasily Stepanov (critic)
Vasily Yevgenievich Stepanov (russian: Васи́лий Евге́ньевич Степа́нов; born in 1981) is a Russian cinema critic, journalist, columnist; since 2020 — chief editor of ''Seans'' magazine. Stepanov was born in Leningrad, he is a St Petersburg Classical Gymnasium graduate and a SPBU alumni. He started his career as an editor of the cinema review section at Kalendar magazine, in 2006 he became an editor at ''Seans''. Stepanov started writing for this publication much earlier, at the age of 21. Stepanov wrote for Kommersant-Weekend, Russian Reporter, ''Empire'', Afisha, and others. In 2019, Stepanov released ''Bergman'', a book of critical essays and analytics, dedicated to the famous director. He also writes poetry. In 2014, he was a member of jury at the St Petersburg ''Video Poetry Festival''. In 2020, Stepanov took over as ''Seans'' chief editor when its founder Lyubov Arkus resigned after a defamation scandal. In 2021, Stepanov co-authored a bo ...
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Anton Dolin (film Critic)
Anton Vladimirovich Dolin (; russian: Антон Владимирович Долин ) is a Russian film critic, journalist, radio host, blogger and podcaster. He was the chief editor of the ''Iskusstvo Kino'' magazine from 2017 to 2022 and the regular film reviewer of ''Evening Urgant'' from 2012 to 2020. Biography Anton Dolin is a son of a Soviet poet Veronika Dolina and professor of physics Vladimir Vorobyov. He graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology) in 1997 as a teacher of Russian literature. In 2000, he graduated from the doctoral program of Gorky Institute of World Literature, writing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences on "The history of the Soviet fairy-tale novel," which he did not end up defending. He worked as a host for the ''Echo of Moscow'' from 1997 to 2003 and for ''Radio Mayak'' from 2007 to 2019. He has also worked for such newspapers and magazines as ''Moskovskiye Novosti'' (2006–2007), ''Expert'' (2 ...
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Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, and ''Faust'' (2011), which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival. Life and work Sokurov was born in Podorvikha, Irkutsky District, in Siberia, into a military officer's family. He graduated from the History Department of the Nizhny Novgorod University in 1974 and entered one of the VGIK studios the following year. There he became friends with Tarkovsky and was deeply influenced by his film ''Mirror''. Most of Sokurov's early features were banned by Soviet authorities. During his early period, he produced numerous documentaries, including ''The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn'' and a reportage about Grigori Kozintsev's flat in Saint Petersburg. His film '' Mour ...
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Russian Language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the De facto#National languages, ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union,1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. ...
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Communist Magazines
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange which allocates products to everyone in the society.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance, but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist st ...
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Visual Arts Magazines Published In Russia
The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (the ability to detect and process visible light) as well as enabling the formation of several non-image photo response functions. It detects and interprets information from the optical spectrum perceptible to that species to "build a representation" of the surrounding environment. The visual system carries out a number of complex tasks, including the reception of light and the formation of monocular neural representations, colour vision, the neural mechanisms underlying stereopsis and assessment of distances to and between objects, the identification of a particular object of interest, motion perception, the analysis and integration of visual information, pattern recognition, accurate motor coordination under visual guidance, and more. The ...
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Magazines Published In Saint Petersburg
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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Magazines Established In 1989
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus '' Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabi ...
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Film Magazines
Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines which principally serve as a consumer guide to movies. Magazines and trade publications })'', , , , Tehran University of Art, , Persian, , Iran, , Irregular, , 2017–, , Current, , Digital magazine , - , ''Panoráma'', , , , Ceskoslovenský filmový ústav, , Czech, , Czechoslovakia, , Quarterly, , 1974?–1981, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Polish Film'', , , , Film Polski, , English, , Poland, , Quarterly, , 1969–1992, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Popular Movies'' (大众电影), , , , Popular Movies Publishing (大众电影杂志社), , Simplified Chinese, , China, , Monthly, , 1950–, , Current, , Magazine , - , '' Positif'', , , , Editions SCOPE, , French, , France, , Monthly, , 1952–, , Current, , Magazine , - , ''POV - A Dan ...
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Eastern Bloc Mass Media
Eastern may refer to: Transportation *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways * Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991 *Eastern Air Lines (2015), an American airline that began operations in 2015 *Eastern Airlines, LLC, previously Dynamic International Airways, a U.S. airline founded in 2010 *Eastern Airways, an English/British regional airline *Eastern Provincial Airways, a defunct Canadian airline that operated from 1949 to 1986 *Eastern Railway (other), various railroads * Eastern Avenue (other), various roads *Eastern Parkway (other), various parkways *Eastern Freeway, Melbourne, Australia *Eastern Freeway Mumbai, Mumbai, India *, a cargo liner in service 1946-65 Education *Eastern University (other) * Eastern College (other) Other uses * Eastern Broadcasting Limited, former name of Maritime Broadcasting System, Cana ...
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List Of Film Periodicals
Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines which principally serve as a consumer guide to movies. Magazines and trade publications })'', , , , Tehran University of Art, , Persian, , Iran, , Irregular, , 2017–, , Current, , Digital magazine , - , ''Panoráma'', , , , Ceskoslovenský filmový ústav, , Czech, , Czechoslovakia, , Quarterly, , 1974?–1981, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Polish Film'', , , , Film Polski, , English, , Poland, , Quarterly, , 1969–1992, , Ceased, , Magazine , - , ''Popular Movies'' (大众电影), , , , Popular Movies Publishing (大众电影杂志社), , Simplified Chinese, , China, , Monthly, , 1950–, , Current, , Magazine , - , '' Positif'', , , , Editions SCOPE, , French, , France, , Monthly, , 1952–, , Current, , Magazine , - , ''POV - A Dan ...
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